Smyrna times., 1887-01-05
Our Heroes Passing Awav.

HiOV SdCu OUner IN the shock Of bot+l
Grant, Meade, Mcclellan. Thomas q,
hancock sleep the dreamless sloan
the dead with Lee, Jackson Hoo
Iaylor and others who survived -
war and the only great opposino Go,
erals who met each other in imnorta,
battles and still survive, are Sbermo
and Johnston, Mcdowell and Roouu
gard and Sheridan and Early. OF III
many commanders of the Armv of n
fotomac, there is not one amoro- ~
liVlng excepting Mcdowell. who
retlred. Scott, Grant, Mcclellan Rnrr
SIDE, Hooker and Meade have all oon
10 JON the great majority, and of tb
great commanders of the war She,
man, Sheridan, Johnson and Rearro
gard are the only survivors. Their
are many heroic and brilliant lieutan
ants OF the great chieftains of both side
'tlll with MS, but the lustre of tbei
achievements is dimmed by the chief
who commanded them.
1t is notable how the Northern beroa
nave almost entirely faded from III,
list of political distinction. Grant
Hayes and Garfield were elected 70 tb,
Presidency because they were dis
tingulshed on the field, and Mcclellan
ana Hancock, two of the most gallant
democratic soldiers of the land were
the competitors of Grant and Garfield
ID PRESIDENTIAL contents, but the last
hatlonal political conflict presented bnt
one soldier out of the four candidates
Oh Ihe TWO great party tickets. He
was second on the Republican ticket
win civilian Blaine, and the inanimate
Oody OF General Logan, now surrounded
oy weeping household gods and friends
IN washington, tells the story that his
LasC battle OF ambition has been fought
Ills fellow Corps Commander from civil
lie, General Frank Blair. was also an
unsuccessful candidate for Vice Presi-
uent with Seymour in 1868, and has
long preceded him to the Citv of the
Silent.
While Confederate heroes yet speak
Tor almost every Southern State in the
United States Senate, it is remarkable
Cnat the next Senate will have very
lew, If any, of the great warriors of the
North. There is not Repnblican
soldier Senator from any of the States
OF the Pacific slope, and the three
soldier Senators of the North who
achieved national fame as warriors are
about to end their terms with no GER
-alnly of the reelection of either Gem
sral Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut
General w. J. Sewell, of New JERSEY
and General Benjamin Harrison. of In
llana, are all of the Northern soldiers
)t fame who remain in the Senate and
hey retire on the 4th of March next
ieneral Hawley has a Republican
legislature and certainly should he
e-elected, but there are ominous
movements against him and his defeat !
possible, but we hope improbable. |
Ieneral Sewell has lost the New JERSEY
legislature, as General Harrison has
ost his battle in Indiana, although
9th are struggling to retrieve the
Isaster by legislative contents. If
nese three prominent Union soldiers
hall be retired, the next Senate will
OF contain single Union warrior of
istinction. The strong Republican
tates of Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Min
esota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Ohio.
New York, Vermont.
hode Island, Massachusetts, Maine
nd New Hampshire have not one
mon hero of national fame in the list
their Senators.
In the South the leaders in the field
g the leaders in the forum; the
aders in war are the leaders in peace.
the North, the leaders in war have
ded away as the leaders in politics
'came masters; and it is confessed
at the leaders of both sides in the
lme of battle, have done most to efface
ctional estrangement and restore the ;
mon to common brotherhood. The s
eat work of the warriors of both the /
ue and the gray has been finished bv l
e complete restoration of the North .
d South to political and business a
lnquility; but the most enlightened o
d patriotic craftsmanship of the last
ore OF years, has come chiefly from u
soldier statesmen of the land. They n
We been generous in peace as they r,
re heroic in war, and they have been 81
'upulous in their devotion to the IL u
erty of law. n
Dur heroes are passing away, but p,
, teaching of their great lives will
perish with them. They bequeath
generations the grandest U
/ strongest free government of the q
tn, purified and ennobled by the =
guinary conflict that effaced the last s.
in of bondage from the escutcheon bI
he Republic. Their work is done, u
their children and their children at
keep their memories green as they kt
Oy the priceless blessings of our he
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